To be sure I built upstream v4.2.1 and it reports the expected and required linkage. Build needs some additional tweaking to avoid libssh deprecated functions causing -Werror to trigger:
$ sudo apt install liblzma-dev $ ../../qemu/configure --target-list=aarch64-linux-user --static --disable-system --enable-linux-user --extra-cflags='-Wno-deprecated- declarations' $ make -j8 V=1 $ file ./aarch64-linux-user/qemu-aarch64 ./aarch64-linux-user/qemu-aarch64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (GNU/Linux), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=70f5e10ac0eb9b63d7758850e2f18d0a047d4b79, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, with debug_info, not stripped -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1908331 Title: Regression: qemu-user-static binaries are dynamically linked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1908331/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs